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...Bernet, whose auction next November should make art history. In 1928 Erickson paid Duveen Bros. $750,000 for the Rembrandt Aristotle. After the crash, he sold it back for $500,000, but in 1936 bought it again for $590,000. With the art market of today, Aristotle seems a cinch to break the $1,000,000 mark, which would be the highest price ever paid for a painting at an auction...
VARSITY TRACK is host to Dartmouth and Brown in the stadium in what is expected to be one of the top track meets of the New England season. The triangular affair should be a nip-and-tuck arrangement for Brown and Dartmouth, and a cinch for the Crimson...
Though admitting that bad weather conditions made it hard for pitchers to throw well, Shepard was not pleased with the 10 walks his team allowed Springfield Tuesday. "We can't win doing that," he said, "that's a cinch." Yarbro is the only starter who has had good control of late, Dick Garibaldi and Dave Larkin being wild in the loss to Springfield...
...passed along it. Explains Mollö-Christensen: "They can do it any way they want to-so long as they find out." On another project, two students chose to study the "time constant for cooling a bottle of Coca-Cola in ice water." They thought it would be a cinch-all they would need was a thermometer and a stop watch. But they found out differently. "It depends on whether you shake the bottle," says Mollö-Christensen. "Remember that little twist the wine steward gives the bottle when he puts it in a bucket? It speeds the cooling...
...still making rounds when President Kennedy tapped him. The Senate has still to confirm his appointment, but that seems a cinch. Back in Red Level, Ala., his birthplace, Terry was named for a respected local doctor named Luther Leonidas Hill, whose son Lister is now Alabama's senior Senator and chairman of the committee that passes on PHS appointments...